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Comment by stopsayingsorry

1 day ago

Imagine backdooring 50+ million installs.

Hats off to the hackers.

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stbenjam  1 day ago

5,000*

  • gcoakes  1 day ago

    I think that's just the number Cursor has telemetry on. I think there's multiple distribution locations.

  • misnome  1 day ago

    5000 is the cursor number for people on the cursor version of the store, not the VSCode store.

    • paxy  21 hours ago

      The VSCode store wasn't hacked.

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